Nice Coloured Girls

Nice Coloured Girls

17 mins | Drama | June 1, 1987

Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.

Nice Coloured Girls

17 mins | Drama | June 1, 1987

Nice Coloured Girls
Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.
Producers
Original title Nice Coloured Girls
Directors Tracey Moffatt
Writers Watkin Tench, William Bradley, Tracey Moffatt

Cast

Gayle Mabo

as Aboriginal Woman A

Cheryl Pitt

as Aboriginal Woman B

Janelle Court

as Aboriginal Woman C

Lindsay McCorrmack

as Captain